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Example sentences for "severely punished"

  • They committed many crimes and were severely punished.

  • Marriage is not held as a sacred tie, but adultery by a wife is severely punished.

  • If any deceit has been practiced, and either person has falsely represented the party about to be married, the offender is severely punished, and the marriage is void, even if completed.

  • But according to human laws those who ill-treat their servants and maidservants are severely punished: and the worse treatment of all seems to be that which results in death.

  • Thirdly, on account of a great desire for or a great pleasure in the sin: for men are not easily deterred from such sins unless they be severely punished.

  • Moreover, in order that witnesses might not easily depart from the truth, the Law commanded that they should be most carefully examined, and that those who were found untruthful should be severely punished, as stated in Deut.

  • If the overseers, or the greatest part of any gang, should have reason to complain of the idleness of any one man belonging to that gang, and the complaint should be found just, the offender will be severely punished.

  • Two of the principals were brought on board the Sirius, severely punished, and sent on board another transport, properly secured in heavy irons.

  • I likewise cautioned them against stealing and plundering the grounds and gardens; assuring them that they would be severely punished on detection.

  • The seraglio was presided over by a number of noble matrons, who kept close watch and ward over the conduct of their charges and made daily reports to the king, who invariably caused the slightest indiscretion to be severely punished.

  • When the king lay on his death-bed it was incumbent on all vassals and courtiers to attend at the palace, and those who stayed away were severely punished.

  • The husband keeps a jealous eye on his wife, and on the least excuse for suspicion she is severely punished.

  • Also a girl "found guilty of frailty" is severely punished by her relatives.

  • But the severity of punishment seems to vary according to the tribe; in the Kurnai elopement was probably the most usual way of getting married; it was therefore not so severely punished.

  • She is severely punished; if successively guilty, killed.

  • It is strictly forbidden to read newspapers in French barracks, and any infringement of this regulation is severely punished.

  • No officer, challenged by one of his comrades, would dare to refuse to fight; if he did so, he would probably be severely punished by the Colonel and sent to Coventry by his comrades.

  • Nagasaki Takasuke, the corrupt kwanryo, advised that Go-Daigo should be dethroned and sent into exile, together with Oto no Miya, and that all implicated in the plot should be severely punished.

  • Compliance with this mandate is compulsory, but should the woman conceal it from her husband, she would be severely punished" (147).

  • If a couple disregard them and elope, they are followed by the indignant relatives in hot pursuit and, if taken, severely punished, perhaps even put to death.

  • Indians (Blackfeet), "severely punished infidelity on the part of their wives by cutting off their noses.

  • Any incontinence amongst the priests was severely punished.

  • Whatsoever Freshman shall break any of these customs, he shall be severely punished.

  • Freshmen are so to carry themselves to there Seniors in all respects so as to be in no wise saucy to them, and who soever of the Freshmen shall brake any of these customs shall be severely punished.

  • If he fails to do this and leaves the mistake to be found out and reported by another, he shall be severely punished.

  • Moreover, all prelates must know that they will be severely punished if they are lax in securing justice for crusaders or their families.

  • If anyone violates this rule, he shall be severely punished.

  • Anyone found doing this shall be rebuked for the first or second offence, and after that he shall be severely punished, that he may serve as a warning and an example to others.

  • One who strikes a person twenty years older than himself, is severely punished: but if he strikes a person of the same age with himself, that person must defend himself as he can with his own hands--no punishment being provided.

  • If, on the contrary, they commit injustice, they will be disgraced and ill-treated among men, severely punished by the Gods.


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